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The CaretakerEverywhere at the End of Time2019History Always Favours The Winners(part of Resident Advisor's 2000-2025 Best Albums) Memories are ghosts inside your mind; samples are ghosts extracted from records and trapped in forever loops. Starting from these premises, The Caretaker takes snippets of maudlin balladry from pre-World War II crooners like Al Bowlly and subjects them to escalating levels of erosion, simulating the stages of dementia. These nostalgic wisps of decaying music gradually disintegrate until all that's left is a howling dust bowl where there once was a self. Conceptually immaculate, consummately executed and emotionally devastating, Everywhere at the End of Time is the ultimate work of hauntological electronic sound art. – Simon ReynoldsThe CaretakerEverywhere at the end of timeEverywhere, an empty blissBaron MordantMark of the MouldThe Wire, June 2019by Simon ReynoldsIt’s twenty years now since the first stirrings of what came to be called hauntology: Boards…